{"id":165661,"date":"2025-09-28T09:33:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165661\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T09:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:33:05","slug":"as-long-it-is-not-disrespectful-salman-ali-agha-shares-thoughts-on-haris-rauf-theatrics-6-0-narrative-against-india-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165661\/","title":{"rendered":"‘As Long It Is Not Disrespectful’ :Salman Ali Agha Shares Thoughts On Haris Rauf Theatrics & 6-0 Narrative Against India | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pakistan\u2019s captain Salman Agha delivered a strong message to the Indian squad and their fans just ahead of the Asia Cup final in Dubai. Agha emphasized that he would allow his teammates the freedom to celebrate on the field during the high-stakes encounter, provided their actions remain respectful. \u201cEvery individual has the right to express emotions. If we stop fast bowlers from showing emotions what\u2019s left then? I won\u2019t stop anyone as long as it is not disrespectful,\u201d Agha declared at the pre-match press conference .<\/p>\n

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His remarks follow a highly publicized week, during which Pakistan opener Sahibzada Farhan and pacer Haris Rauf drew criticism for their celebrations and gestures in the last Super 4s match against India at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Farhan\u2019s \u201cgunshot\u201d celebration after his half-century where he mimicked firing a rifle with his bat sparked outrage in India and was especially sensitive given the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Pahalgam five months prior .
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Rauf also made headlines for appearing to troll Indian supporters at the venue with a \u201c6-0\u201d gesture referencing Pakistan\u2019s claim of shooting down six Indian fighter jets during the May military conflict, and by mimicking a downed aircraft with his hand. The ICC reacted by fining Rauf 30 percent of his match fee, while Farhan escaped sanction despite the BCCI filing a complaint. In the same game, Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav received a fine after dedicating India\u2019s seven-wicket victory to the victims of the Pahalgam attack and Indian armed forces .
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The tournament controversy didn\u2019t end there. Farhan and Rauf\u2019s actions led India to decline shaking hands with the Pakistan side during the group stage. Suryakumar Yadav avoided his counterpart Agha at the toss, resulting in a tense atmosphere and provoking the PCB to threaten a boycott of the event. The Pakistani board even tried, unsuccessfully, to have match referee Andy Pycroft removed after officiating both Indo-Pak games so far .
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Tensions grew in subsequent matches, with post-game pleasantries skipped and several confrontations between players, notably involving Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Haris Rauf, and Shaheen Shah Afridi. Addressing the lack of handshakes, Agha commented, \u201cI started playing U16 cricket in 2007. I never saw any teams not shaking hands. Even when Indo-Pak relations were worse we still shook hands. So, in my opinion, no handshakes in cricket aren\u2019t good in the game,\u201d expressing his disappointment over the escalating hostilities .
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India and Pakistan are set to make history in the Asia Cup, facing each other in the final for the first time since the tournament started 41 years ago, across both ODI and T20I formats\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s captain Salman Agha delivered a strong message to the Indian squad and their fans just ahead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[74982,74987,1721,63713,71025,74986,74988,74898,74983,74981,74985,74984,36950,74989,74990,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-165661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-asia-cup-2025-dubai","tag-asia-cup-final-preview","tag-cricket","tag-haris-rauf","tag-haris-rauf-controversy","tag-india-pakistan-handshake-dispute","tag-india-vs-pakistan-asia-cup-2025-final","tag-india-vs-pakistan-asia-cup-final","tag-on-field-celebrations-cricket","tag-pakistan-captain-salman-agha","tag-pcb-icc-complaint","tag-sahibzada-farhan-gunshot-celebration","tag-salman-ali-agha","tag-salman-ali-agha-on-haris-rauf","tag-salman-ali-agha-on-no-handshake","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}